After a long absence from the reef aquarium hobby, Unique Corals has finally succeeded in landing a shipment of fresh new wild corals from the Coral Triangle. However unlike the rest of the world fighting over the trickle of corals…
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ACI Lands the First Shipment of Bali Aquarium Cultured Corals
Oh boy how good it feels to know that not only are Indonesian corals trickling out of this land of coral reefs in modest quantities, but that there’s a good number of maricultured corals in those boxes too. Chief among…
Montipora Eating Nudibranch Finally Have a Name: Phestilla subodiosus
Of all the corals pests that reef aquarists have to deal with, prevent, and remove, Montipora eating nudibranch is one of the most egregious and damaging. The reefing community has been trying to find a ‘final solution’ to eradicate these…
Coral CAN be Colorful Under White Lights [Video]
If you spend anytime on reef aquarium social media these days, especially facebook and instagram you might be shocked by how colorful some people’s corals tanks and corals are. Hopefully by now most of you are aware that these photos…
Wild Coral Shipments Have Resumed for at Least Few Months
So much has been happening regarding the export of Indonesian corals in the last few weeks that it has been challenging to make sense of it all. Immediately after Maricultured corals were greenlit for export, several shipments of wild corals…
The Joe Dirt Acro is one of Worldwide Corals’ Most Underrated SPS Corals
The Worldwide Corals Joe Dirt Acro is an elegant, delicately branching thin staghorn that has a hidden beauty that betrays its name. If someone gave you a frag of a kinda purplish tip staghorn with a basic nutty brown base…
Mystery Montipora from the Solomon Islands Defies Identification
One of the reasons we all love keeping, growing and collecting corals from tropical places is because they are a mystery, and their identification can be very hard to pin down. It’s precisely because of all this uncertainty that we’ve…
Fish in a Box is Your Stop for Coral Frags in Brasília
Fish in a Box Brasília Fish in a Box is a local fish store we were recommended to visit in the city of Brasília, the capital city of Brazil. Don’t be deceived by this little store in a box, once…
A Sneak Peek at the Newest Wave of Indo Cultured Acropora
A year and a half doesn’t seem like a very long time but it’s an eternity for rabid coral collectors, and even more so for the coral farmers who’ve gone without income for so long. Thankfully after extensive lobbying, negotiations…
The Xenomorph Coral Could Only Have Been a Zoanthid
The Xenomorph coral is an amorphous new species of zoanthid that reminds some people of the face-hugging extra terrestrials from popular culture. Many types of corals are pretty alien looking already but this newly described species of zoanthid is really…
